Procyonidae

Procyonidae is a New World family of the order Carnivora. It includes the raccoons, ringtails, cacomistles, coatis, kinkajous, olingos, and olinguitos. Procyonids inhabit a wide range of environments and are generally omnivorous.

Procyonidae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
procyonid carnivorePBDB
Sits inside
MustelidaPBDB
Diet
frugivore, carnivorePBDB
Life habit
scansorialPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 22 million years on record.

The record covers at least 22.4 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 29.5 Mya to 0 Mya.

Oligocene — about 1 of 276 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 100 of 276 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 35 of 276 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 109 of 276 occurrencesPleistocene30–29 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 3 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 1 occurrence21–20 Mya — about 1 occurrence20–19 Mya — about 2 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 4 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 6 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 6 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 10 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 10 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 9 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 7 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 4 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 4 occurrences10–9.0 Mya — about 4 occurrences9.0–8.0 Mya — about 4 occurrences8.0–7.0 Mya — about 8 occurrences7.0–6.0 Mya — about 10 occurrences6.0–5.0 Mya — about 10 occurrences5.0–4.0 Mya — about 13 occurrences4.0–3.0 Mya — about 14 occurrences3.0–2.0 Mya — about 15 occurrences2.0–1.0 Mya — about 17 occurrences1.0–0 Mya — about 113 occurrences22.4 Mya11.7 ka30.1 Mya0 Mya

276 occurrences of Procyonidae on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

276 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

73 formations

Valentine — 42.81°N, 100.05°WValentine — 42.70°N, 100.00°WValentine — 42.80°N, 100.80°WValentine — 40.02°N, 98.53°WValentine — 42.78°N, 100.03°WValentine — 42.60°N, 98.00°WCerro Azul — 36.25°S, 65.51°WCerro Azul — 37.22°S, 63.59°WCerro Azul — 36.33°S, 65.28°WCerro Azul — 36.83°S, 67.33°WCerro Azul — 37.10°S, 62.79°WCerro Azul — 35.96°S, 64.44°WFleming — 30.75°N, 95.27°WFleming — 31.10°N, 93.10°WFleming — 30.50°N, 95.00°WFleming — 30.75°N, 95.21°WRexroad — 37.20°N, 100.30°WRexroad — 37.13°N, 100.48°WMonte Hermoso — 38.00°S, 61.00°WMonte Hermoso — 38.97°S, 61.70°WPeace River — 27.90°N, 81.80°WPeace River — 27.68°N, 81.95°WWood Mountain — 49.17°N, 105.99°WWood Mountain — 49.20°N, 106.20°WTamiami — 27.37°N, 82.45°WTamiami — 27.30°N, 80.80°WTamiami — 27.78°N, 82.68°WPalm Spring — 32.90°N, 117.10°WMascall — 44.09°N, 120.01°WMascall — 44.92°N, 120.18°WPisco — 15.55°S, 74.80°WPisco — 15.58°S, 74.72°WPisco — 15.06°S, 74.08°WSnake Creek — 42.40°N, 103.80°WAsh Hollow — 42.70°N, 100.00°WAsh Hollow — 43.20°N, 100.70°WOgallala — 36.70°N, 101.40°WOgallala — 37.20°N, 99.90°WAlachua — 29.55°N, 82.52°WRingold — 47.00°N, 118.50°WBermont — 28.80°N, 82.20°WBermont — 27.70°N, 82.50°WEpecuén — 37.22°S, 63.55°WOlcott — 42.08°N, 103.80°WOlcott — 42.40°N, 103.80°WTesuque — 35.50°N, 106.20°WAndalhuala — 26.68°S, 66.03°WSan Gregorio — 11.30°N, 70.24°WIrene — 38.63°S, 60.61°WPeterson Creek Beds — 45.00°N, 113.60°W

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The named rock units Procyonidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 49 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 153 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Procyonidae and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Procyonidae and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

3,369 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 230 sites for Procyonidae, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

153 references

Each of the 276 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. 141 further references are not listed. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Procyonidae

Credit
MathKnight
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

The description on this site

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CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gray 1825